The first year trainees on their collections management traineeship are coming to the end of their year, now they will all be prepared for work out in the big, wide world of conservation. We second year trainees, on the other[...] read more

As you may have read in Andy’s last post, the exhibition is up and running! So I thought I’d put up some photos to show you some of the hard work done by the team that has gone into planning, researching and finally installing the exhibition.

The Passport to your Future (PTYF) programme consists of both collections and CMS placements. This means that some trainees focus more on the collections management side of things whilst the other trainees main focus is conservation and care of collections.Being a care of collections trainee at[...] read more

On Tuesday 6th March ten "Passport to your Future" trainees from all over the country headed to Heelis for “moving to employment” and Housekeeping training. The career development day focused on all important CV writing and how to sell yourself to possible employers- celebrity style! Emma and Sian gave us[...] read more

Hello everyone, I’m Charlie and at present I am working at two National Trust properties: Killerton in Devon and Trerice in Cornwall. I am a trainee on the Heritage Skills Passport training program based at both properties. Killerton is a house that has split personalities. The first floor is about[...] read more

South Devon Countryside recently lost its first internship. This is a tale of success rather than failure though with Sophie our first ever internship moving to pastures new, from intern to permanent ranger for the National Trust in one giant leap. For anyone considering whether a National Trust internship is[...] read more

Having worked in many mundane roles throughout my working life, I was really excited to have been accepted on the Passport training scheme. Based at Tyntesfield, I have been working on the ‘Tyntesfield Unpacked’ project, where I have been dressing one of the never-before-seen rooms as part of the new[...] read more